JOIN THE CLUB – Former state Sen. Rob O’Leary, left, shakes hands with former state Rep. John Klimm, now Barnstable’s town manager, at the Jan. 20 town council meeting. O’Leary represented the Cape & Islands in the Senate for a decade before staging an unsuccessful run for Congress last year. A proclamation by the council honored his “skillful leadership, with its absence of hostility and orderly accommodation of diverse views.”

PRAISE FROM THOSE WHO KNOW HIM BEST – Town Council President Fred Chirigotis reads a proclamation honoring the service of former state Sen. Rob O’Leary of Cummaquid while O’Leary listens Jan. 20. He was lauded for “his wonderful sense of humor and animating spirit, and his recognition of the ambiguities of social and political reality, [which] directly influenced and caused the citizens of Cape Cod to be willing to explore possibilities and embrace change.”